Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.